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Micheline Pollock, a citizen of Canada and resident of the United Kingdom, was sentenced in federal court today to time served, which amounts to approximately a 30-month term of imprisonment, for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) in connection with military and humanitarian construction projects across Africa.  Chief U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw also ordered Pollock to pay more than $7 million in restitution.

Kaylar Junior Tawan Beltranlap, a 21-year-old San Diego resident, was sentenced in federal court today to 156 months in prison for distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that resulted in the death of 15-year-old Coronado High School sophomore Clark Jackson Salveron on May 12, 2021.

A street gang member who led and organized an armed robbery was sentenced in federal court today to 96 months in prison after pleading guilty in April to one count of Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Robbery.

Alexander Michael Randise of Ocean Beach was sentenced today in federal court to 188 months in prison for distribution of fentanyl that resulted in the fatal overdose of 30-year-old Tyber Joseph Lustig.

A federal judge has ordered Glenn Arcaro - one of the leaders of a massive cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded investors worldwide - to pay $17,646,801 dollars in restitution to approximately 800 victims from over 40 countries.

A Los Angeles resident was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for his role building specialized devices to steal the financial information of unwitting victims at gas pumps throughout Southern California. 

Terese L. White, a flight attendant residing in Dallas, Texas, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a drug-trafficking charge, admitting that she used her privileges as a flight attendant to bypass the more robust security screening process at San Diego International Airport in order to smuggle fentanyl which was taped to her abdomen.

Dr. David J. Smith, a pain management physician, and his office manager, Julia Ann Oertle, are charged in a federal grand-jury indictment with perpetuating a long-running scheme to commit healthcare fraud and to manufacture and distribute adulterated fentanyl.

SAN DIEGO - Jose Luis Gonzalez was sentenced in federal court today to 30 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $5,052,037 for transmitting more than $5 million dollars through an unregistered money transmission business and claiming more than $19 million dollars in fraudulent tax deductions in connection with the scheme.

Edmond Abordo of Honolulu was arrested by the FBI today in connection with a federal grand jury indictment charging that he forged the signature of a federal judge in order to trick a woman into paying him thousands of dollars for bogus legal services.

An Arizona woman was sentenced in federal court today to 12 months and 1 day in prison for participating in a large-scale “grandparent scam” racketeering conspiracy. 

Justin Gale Mata and Everett Justin Curtis, both residents of Poway, were sentenced in federal court today to 180 months and  151 months in prison, respectively, for supplying the fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of Brian M. Parrish, a Cal Fire firefighter.

In their plea agreements, the defendants admitted that they knowingly supplied the fentanyl that led to Parrish’s death.